BAL @ MIN
Home plate: Todd Tichenor
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Todd Tichenor called the 157 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 147 right. Below, only his misses are plotted, alongside every pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.69▲8 · 3-2 ball called strike
Christian Franklin vs Tommy Nance - 2+0.23▲2 · 0-2 strike called ball
Jeremiah Jackson vs Bailey Ober - 3+0.23▲3 · 0-2 strike called ball
Tyler O'Neill vs Bailey Ober
Run impact from the count run-value table: a missed strike three is worth far more than one on 3-0.
ABS — the Automated Ball-Strike System
3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Luke Keaschall — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Kaelen Culpepper — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.